Newegg stocking Cougar PSUs?

[ExcaliburMM]

Sup power section,
Newegg seems to have just started stocking Cougar PSUs.

Who's the OEM?

What brands are Cougar comparable to? Are they another Corsair/Antec? A little lower like OCZ? Or are they lower down like CoolerMaster? Or perhaps even lower, on par with the likes of Logisys, Diablotek or Athena?

 

[Rifter]

HEC aka Heroichi aka Compucase

So i would rate them mid range at best, but leaning towards the low end.

 

[Meghan54]

Newegg has stocked Cougar power supplies for quite a while....Oklahoma Wolf, in a review of a European-only Cougar ps he reviewed in Feb. mentioned just that.....

HEC is the OEM for Cougar ps's.....but there is a huge difference between the "real" Cougars found in Europe and the "U.S. only" Cougars sold at Newegg.

To lift a quote from OK's review of the Euro Cougar.....

I must admit I didn't have a lot of hope for this unit, being from the same OEM that completely underwhelmed me the last time I looked at a HEC built product.

This particular unit doesn't appear to be available in North America right now. What about the Cougars listed at Newegg, you ask? Well... they aren't really the same thing. What we're looking at here is HEC's actual Cougar brand name, not the HEC Cougar units you can currently get at Newegg. Confused, much? Me too.

But I really want to see these things being sold in North America instead of these other Cougars that are really different Cougars with names that are too similar to tell them apart easily. Two points off for giving me a cougar sized headache.

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=178 (Passages above taken from page 5, summary.)


The upshot is HEC markets two distinctly different Cougar branded power supply lines, one for the U.S. and utter junk, and one for the rest of the world and are good power supplies.

 

[jacktesterson]

They just showed up at NCIX.com in Canada too, all the way up to 1000w


From what I've read, they are not Junk, but in the OCZ Range at best.

 

[JEDIYoda]

From what I've read, they are not Junk, but in the OCZ Range at best.

You need to go read Oklahoma Wolf`s review at http://www.jonnyGuru.com

 

[jacktesterson]

You need to go read Oklahoma Wolf`s review at http://www.jonnyGuru.com

of which model?

 

[jacktesterson]

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story5&reid=178

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Very nice looking units.

 

[jacktesterson]

I've read multiple reviews on the 1000w model in the last few days as I had a chance to pick one up cheap but decided against it, a lot of so-so reviews on the net.

Example
http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/power_supply/cougar_1000cm_1000w_psu_revisited/5

 

[HOOfan 1]

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story5&reid=178

That is or at least was a model only available in Europe...maybe only Germany.

Most of the Cougar stuff over in the US is crap.

Much closer to this than the Cougar in the link above

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=158

 

[Meghan54]

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story5&reid=178

Damn, reading comprehension problems?

That was the EXACT power supply I linked to and was mentioned throughout the article it was a EUROPEAN ONLY model, not available in North America.

As Hoofan noted, the Cougar/HEC variants available in North America are complete rippling, out of spec junk.....well below the junk OCZ puts out.

 

[ExcaliburMM]

Thanks guys. Just wanted to know what to tell clients when we go through picking out PSUs. 🙂

 

[jacktesterson]

Damn, reading comprehension problems?

That was the EXACT power supply I linked to and was mentioned throughout the article it was a EUROPEAN ONLY model, not available in North America.

As Hoofan noted, the Cougar/HEC variants available in North America are complete rippling, out of spec junk.....well below the junk OCZ puts out.

Sorry

Is it that time of the month?

 

[MagickMan]

I'm happy that there is now a brand specifically for older women.

 

[BTA]

I have two of them, a 570w and 750w. One in main rig and another in my WHS. Both work great and are nice and quiet.

I've always used HEC (personally and when I was in the business of system building) and have never had a single one die on me.

 

[JEDIYoda]

You need to go read Oklahoma Wolf`s review at http://www.jonnyGuru.com

do I have to do all your research??